Outgoing UC President Andrea R. Flores ’10 said yesterday that the UC will instead suspend its bylaws and put the vote to certify the election results to the entire council at the next UC General meeting. In an e-mail to the student body at 2:37 a.m. this morning, she appealed to students to respect the results of the election.

“Students have voted, and...have selected the next UC President and Vice-President,” she wrote.

Flores sought last night to distinguish the events surrounding the election from the operations of the Council more generally.

“I’m incredibly disappointed in our Election Commission and in its inability to stay free of campus politics,” she said. “This should not reflect the work of the UC. This reflects only our election process, and it is something that must immediately be reformed.”

—Staff writer Melody Y. Hu can be contacted at melodyhu@fas.harvard.edu.

—Staff writer Eric P. Newcomer can be contacted at newcomer@fas.harvard.edu.